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Food CPI, Prices and Expenditures:
Coverage of Food Expenditures in Tables 1, 7, and 8

Table 9 Coverage of food expenditures in tables 1, 7, and 8
Category	Total expenditures (table 1)	Expenditures out of personal income (table 7)	Expenditures out of personal money income (table 8)
Food at home:
Cash purchases	Included	Included	Included
Food stamps	Included	Included	Excluded
Donated	Included	Excluded	Excluded
WIC	Included	Included	Excluded
Home produced:
Farm	Included at retail prices	Included at farm prices	Excluded
Nonfarm	Included	Excluded	Excluded
Sport fish and game	Included	Excluded	Excluded
Food away from home:
Purchased by families and individuals	Included	Included	Included
Expense-account meals	Included	Excluded	Excluded
Food furnished to employees	Included	Included	Excluded
Food furnished to inmates and patients	Included	Excluded	Partly excluded¹
Food and cash donated to schools and institutions	Included	Excluded	Excluded

¹Excludes the part of food in hospitals and nursing homes that was paid for by government, business, and philanthropy.

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Updated date: October 23, 2005